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Back in June, we were contacted by Martha Stewart Living about an article on corn mazes for their October 2019 issue. We are pretty excited about the result--we love the magazine! Martha Stewart Living famous -- that's pretty famous, right? And here's the online...

This year, we are partnering with The International Crane Foundation, located in Baraboo, Wisconsin, which works worldwide to conserve cranes and the ecosystems, watershed and flyways on which they depend. The International Crane foundation staff and volunteers will...

In our educational world of one-to-one devices, educational apps, interactive internet-connected boards, and the firehose of information we are trying to teach our kids to navigate, more and more teachers are looking to balance the digital experience with authentic,...

Big News! Treinen Farm selected as one of the ten best corn mazes in the U.S. in the USA Today's Reader's Choice Award. From USA Today: The 10Best Readers' Choice Award contest launches new categories every other Monday at noon, revealing each category's 20 nominees....

Every year we need to come up with an amazing maze theme--which is a lot of pressure! We need a design that is interesting, recognizable, complex, and gives us a story to tell or at least easy conversation starters. This year, the maze is the Rudyard Kipling Just-So...

Last year, when the truly dedicated maze nerds came out of the grapes (as in, the first part of the Fox and the Grapes maze) we heard lots of raving about how hard and awesome they were. We started saying “maybe we’ll make a maze that’s just all kinds of circles.” Well, guess what–we did, and here’s how you do it.

Check out the article featuring our maze on the website Smithsonian.com — I’m super proud of this mention on the Smithsonian site, as the Smithsonian Institute is one of my favorite things. This is an article written by Andrew Amelinckx, originally published at Modern Farmer

Number one question at the Treinen Farm this year is "Why are the unicorns killers?" Let's go back to how we think up a maze design. I (Angie) am the designer, so basically I get to do whatever I want. But I am willing to accept some input in the idea phase. Alan (my...

The Zombie Invasion at the Treinen Farm Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch, Lodi WI, happens the Saturday before Halloween 7pm-midnight What exactly is “Zompocalypse”? The Zombie Apocalypse, of course. What? Why? Well, you see, the zombie virus has spread throughout the...